Happy Friday to you! this week has just flown by on the wings of time (trite statement) ... before I forget I must thank you all for the wonderful, sweet comments on my Moxie Fab feature/win. It was so much fun, and I was actually pushed out of my comfort zone to create that card. But your encouragement and cheers got me all the way :) ...
... and here I find myself participating on a special challenge on the very last day possible :) ...
Betsy Veldman is one really, really special person to me. From the first day I found her lovely blog I have never been able to stop poring over every detail of her designs and creations. She is totally amazing! and sweet! and special!
Ok, so she had a challenge and I simply had to participate. It calls for vintage goodies, all piled onto a little card. So I dusted off an old, old box of buttons that my mother has stashed away in her drawer.
... it simply did not look promising. But I dug. and dug. and dug. as quietly as possible so as not to wake my room mates, because it was already quite late. And with what I found, I paired these lovely old crocheted flowers that my mother created for handmade baby clothes so many years ago. Definitely more than 20 years past. Is that vintage? :)
then I did something that was not good of me to do. I removed (in other words, tore) a page out of an old book. It is a soft copy of David Livingstone that isn't holding together too well; it has been in my home for close to 30 years. I wanted to keep the story, so I used the contents page. The other blank pages were covered with toddler-scribbling.. I did it. Many years ago. But scribbling is not vintage.
Isn't that top corner of the page yummy? Worn down with time and fingering ...
and these sweet, aged, dirty buttons, still with the threads from being stitched to shirts and dresses ...
I thought dirty buttons were kind of yucky, but not after this card slowly took shape. It became a heritage piece ... symbolic of the years of care and wear my dear mother carried for us. She sewed endlessly to dress her ten children ... and passed on little skills such as the sewing and crocheting to her girls. The buttons long ago fell of the shirts and dresses, but they carry memories of many years.
these few buttons will not go to waste. They will be treasured for some future project that will befit their heritage. To my parents, who have done so much for me, I Love You SO MUCH ...
... thank you for your years of sacrifice and toil. May God reward and bless you!
And thank you all, girls, for visiting with me today. Have a blessed weekend!
Viola
P.S. Betsy, if you found the listing for vintage items confusing, here's a list: book page, buttons, and crocheted flowers. Thank you for the inspiring challenge!
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